Gosh I love magical realism

Here's a case of serendipity and one thing leading to another. Someone on the carl brandon group posted something about the youtube of Gnarls Barkley's video "Who's gonna save my soul?"

BTW, blogger sometimes says a video isn't available if you click on it. Just click again. Or go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTVSygNKAsg



Then I went over to Stuff as Dreams are Made on a specfic review site and he did a review of The Translator, a non-fiction book about the atrocities in Darfur.

In the meantime, I saw another interpretation of Gnarls song: Kinda like a 2008 version of Easy to be Hard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwOwRL-_xcU



Weird, uh? But that's the way these serendipitous things happen. I don't know if one would call it serendipitous. Too sad. More like synchronicity, maybe. Oh gee! Now that I've mentioned Easy to be hard, I guess I'll include that. Here's the link if you can't see the youtube video here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zyn9QIQtP68



Okay, I began talking about magical realism and now ventured into blatant scary realism. I better stop thinking of this as a sign to go out and do something about this present evil world. Just synchronicity as all. Should've waited, I think, to lable this post. -C

The Giving Tree Band

One of my favorite bands. They're bluegrass. I did an interview with Todd a while back.

Here's a link to a video of a recent feature they had on nbc news in chicago:

Here's their website.

This is my favorite song on their Unified Folk Theory album. Weird, i know, cause i don't believe in reincarnation. The tune is just so catchy, though. And no, not all their songs are this cosmic. Just really great bluegrass. If you want to find out about them, check out my interview

Here's the interview of Todd over at blogcritics.




Here they are on youtube if you can't see the embedded video.

Very nice guys. -C

Rissi Palmer: another black milestone

just discovered Rissi Palmer a Black Female Country Singer. YAY!!!!!! Yep, I'm happy. Know what it's like watching country music videos on television? Those cowboys defining country girls (and also defining beauty) as blonde-haired and blue-haired? Go, Rissi! Continue to be brave! All we black women out there want to see a gorgeous black woman on country television.

Check out her video Country Girl?

And her interview about performing at the Grand Old Opry